Marriage is a social union or legal contact between individuals that creates kinship
Marriage is a social union or legal contact between individuals that creates kinship
Marriage - it is an institutional in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledge by a variety of ways, depending on the culture or demographic
Union may be also called Matrimony
the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding
the marital structure created in marriage is known as wedlock
Legal capacity of contracting parties who must be female and a male - this means that the parties MUST GAVE THE NECESSARY AGE or NECESSARY CONSENT OF PARENTS in certain cases
Age 18 to 21 - needs parental CONSENT
Age 22 to 25 - needs parental ADVISE
Parental consent and parental advice CANNOT be used interchangeably
Age 18 to 21 - needs parental CONSENT
Age 22 to 25 - needs parental ADVISE
Parental consent or Parental advice is required during the application for a MARRIAGE LICENSE
The marriage of a person below 18 year of age even with the consent of the parents, are VOID AB INITIO
void ab initio means void from the very beginning
AUTHORUTY OF SOLEMNIZING OFFICER
Any incumbent member of the judiciary within the courts jurisdiction
Any priest, rabbi, imam, or minister of any church religious sector
Any ship captain or airplane chief only in the case of ARTICULO MORTIS
Any military commander of a unit to which a chaplain is assigned, in the absence of the latter, during a military operation.
Any consul-general, consul, or vice consul
Mayors - according to Local Government Code
Articulo Mortis means AT THE POINT OF DEATH
under the FAMILY CODE governors, mayors, and ambassadors are not authorized to perform marriages
under the LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT, mayors are now authorized to perform marriages within their jurisdiction
the marriage license shall be valid in any part of the Philippines for a period of 120 days from the date of issue, and shall be deemed automatically cancelled at the expiration of said period if the contracting parties have not made of it
Exemption from having license:
Marriage in articulo mortis
Marriage in remote places
Marriage of people who have previously cohabited for at least 5 years
Marriage between Pagans or Muslim
in marriage ceremony, it shall be held with the appearance of the contracting parties before the solemnizing officer and their personal declaration that they take each other as husband and wife in the presence of not less than two witnesses
Filiations - the judicial determination of paternity which is the relation of child to the father.
Filiation of children may be by nature or by adoption
Paternity - civil status or relationship of the father to the child
Filiation - civil status or relationship of the child to the father
in annulment, the marriage is defective at the very beginning
in legal separation , there was no defect in the marriage at the beginning
The cause of annulment must be already existing at the time of marriage
the cause of legal separation arises after the marriage separation
there are 7 ground for annulment, while there are 10 grounds for legal separation
annulments dissolves the marriage bond, and thus the parties are free to marry again. On the other hand, in legal separation, marriage remains
if the marriage dissolves due to annulment, the parties are free to marry again after 1 year
Legitimate child - one conceived or born during the marriage
For the case of insemination, the child would be considered legitimate child provided that both of the husband and wife authorized such insemination in a written instrument executed and signed by the before the birth of the child. The instrument shall be recorded in the civil registry together with the birth certificate of the child
Illegitimate child - Children conceived outside the valid marriage
Under RA 9255, illegitimate child may use the surname of their father if their filiation has been expressly recognized by the father
Illegitimate Children may use the surname of their father either through:
Record of Birth Certificate
Father's admission in public document
Father's admission in private handwritten document
Adopted child - legally made the son and daughter of someone other than the biological parent
Legitimated child - conceived and born outside wedlock our parents who at time of the conception of the child, we're not disqualified by any impediment to marry each other